Show A PICTURE OF ERzE boum Roum the streets of Erze roum are compared by a correspondent cf the london standard to a net of wriggling eels no squares no good looking houses offer anywhere a means of setting oneself right everywhere no nothing thing but houses rising slightly from the ground with grass roofs on which may frequently be seen muffled up women and children at play and lambs frisking about children and lambs sometimes fall through the chimney into th the house chouse in which men and women oxen cows and sheep live together in bad weather the chimneys are covered w with th flat stones atones anu ana then the smoke fills the room or stable whichever one chooses to call it A small part of this room devoid of light or air in which a fire made of dung nna and finely cut straw burns is sep separated abated by a railing here paterfamilias sits on a rug smoking his chibon RE que or leh and receives guests the preparation of food gives little trouble troubie tron ble bie a penny pendy a day suffices sum suf flees to satisfy the palate and sto stomach misch mitch even in wealthy families A little bread and cheese perhaps a cucumber under favorable circumstances a on feast days a piece of mutton which the ar armenian me women roast particularly well that is the whole bill of fare |